Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including reaction to David Cameron's plan to encourage councils to allow fracking, and Iain Duncan Smith taking welfare questions...

Zoe Williams (Targeting families has got nothing to do with fairness, 27 September) rightly condemns the way in which politicians of all parties deploy family support provision as a political football...

Women give their reactions to David Cameron's keynote speech and why the Tories are failing to attract the female voteSupport for the Tories among women is in decline, with just 13% saying in a recent poll that they feel...

Most of us don’t think twice about going home for the holidays, but the idea is impossible for the millions of homeless people worldwide. In Sweden, the Stockholm City Welfare Mission joined forces with the Swedish Museum...